History of the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System & the significance Charlotte has on the list

Throughout the course of 2018, I have been able to expand the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System to over 35 TIMES its original coverage! And I still have a trough more to add from October to December 2018.

History of the CCRS

2017

To think that just 9 months ago, this was the entire size of the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System. It was THAT SMALL! And it wasn’t even called the CCRS. It was called the Charlotte Kingdom!  To be fair, the list of cities with great lifts was born on 5.30.2017, almost 7 months BEFORE! Charlotte was the very first city to make it on the CCRS, due to the sheer variety of modernly unique lifts found throughout the city, by appearance & run character. I watched over 200 videos of lifts in Charlotte on YouTube during the days leading up to May 30, 2017. I watched my first video as early as Thursday April 20, 2017 (This was EVEN BEFORE I KNEW CLINTON TOWNSHIP WAS A THING!) I was obviously impressed with that video, so I decided to watch more. My curiosity was what lead me on this “research by film & experience” project, also known as the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System! I lived in New York City when I first discovered Charlotte.

In June 2017, I managed to spontaneously watch over a hundred of videos of lifts in Houston. I watched each & every video VERY CAREFULLY! I was impressed with about 90% of the videos I have watched in Houston & decided to put Houston second on my unnamed list! By Tuesday June 20 of 2017, Houston was ranked SECOND on my list. Little did I know that later that week, I would make my first discovery by experience, riding two lifts I already loved, the KONE MCE model & the OTIS Gen2.

However, on Sunday, June 18, two days before I put Houston on the list, I rode TWO SETS OF LIFTS (filmed 1). I was quite happy with both lifts I was able to ride while I was in Albany.  I had warm feelings about putting Albany on the list, but I didn’t do so until June 2018.

On Saturday June 24, 2017, I managed to make a trip to the town of Secaucus (at the time it was my SECOND trip). I managed to film two different sets of lifts & watched more videos of lifts in Secaucus WHEN I GOT HOME. I was already VERY HAPPY with all the lifts I rode in Secaucus that evening. By my move to Clinton Township on Sunday July 2, 2017, Secaucus was an official city (or should I say town) on the then unnamed list.

At that point, just over a month after the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System was born, I was already impressed with three cities (one of them was a 10-story town).

My family was planning a trip to LA over the summer which was supposed to take place in December of 2017, but I am actually pretty happy it DIDN’T take place because instead we went to Hartford & New Haven, which had great lifts. Over the summer of 2017, after we settled into Clinton Township, each day we discussed about LA, it lead me to watch more videos of lifts. By the end of August 2018, on my first day of Junior Year (Thursday August 24), I had watched over 400 videos of lifts in LA, with only around 2% of the videos that I WASN’T impressed with! By Friday, September 1st, Los Angeles knocked Houston down to 3rd place & was second to Charlotte! Secaucus was knocked down to 4th. By that time, I had 4 cities I really liked on that list.

Additionally, on Thursday July 20, I made my first trip to Atlantic City. It was via an invite from a family frirnd to visit the high rise Borgata hotel, which, upon doing research back in Clinton Township earlier that day, had OTIS Elevonic 411 lifts. I had already ridden three OTIS Elevonic 411 lifts in 2017 before that, which made me even more excited to go to Atlantic City. When I got to Atlantic City, the first lift I filmed was a 16-story ThyssenKrupp which modernised a Dover Traflomatic. These lifts made rattly noises & had fast acceleration due to them being on old motors. By the end of my stay in that hotel (Courtyard by Marriott), I was already getting good feelings about Atlantic City. Later, I rode some OTIS Gen2 & Elevonic 411 lifts in the Borgata north tower, along with some OTIS 211 hydros. I was VERY HAPPY & this of course, gave me good feelings about adding Atlantic City to the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System.

Then came September of 2017. Unfortunately, I lost all of my journal posts from before November 2017, so I will give you what I remember. I have watched multiple videos of lifts throughout Chicago & Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Being impressed with the lifts, I added Milwaukee & Wisconsin to the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System by September 30. After that, I made an accidental discovery on videos of lifts in Fort Lauderdale & Miami that I DIDN’T film back in February 2017. Because I was already very happy with all of the lifts that I filmed in Fort Lauderdale & south of Miami during past Florida trips, these two cities immediately went on the Charlotte Kingdom. Fort Lauderdale was fifth & Miami was sixth. I made this addition by Monday October 2.

October 2017 rolled around & within the first week, I found out that I was taking my first trip to Hartford. In Hartford, on October 8, I managed to ride two 3-story OTIS hydraulic lifts from completely different time periods. One of them was a 1986 OTIS 211 relay-controlled hydro, which I TOTALLY ENJOYED A LOT (sadly has been modernised in December when I went to check that lift again). The 1986 OTIS I filmed had a LOT OF CHARACTER! It was unlike any lift I had ridden recently, so I decided to film it THREE TIMES during my two-day trip in Hartford. As for the new lift in the hotel, which was modernised into OTIS Series M2 back in 2014, I FRICKIN’ LOVED THAT LIFT A LOOOOOT! I was starting to get good feelings about putting Hartford on the list, and I DID on Wednesday December 27 of the same year, after revisiting Hartford again & being impressed with MORE lifts I filmed. On the same day, I took into consideration the lifts in New Haven & put it directly below Hartford on the list. With knowledge of good lifts in Atlanta & watching more than a hundred lift videos from Atlanta, being impressed with most, I added Atlanta on the list on the same day, right below Atlanta. Hartford & New Haven received placements directly below Chicago. Hartford now has a permanent placement on the CCRS. Secaucus was right below New Haven on the list.

November 2017 came around & I went absolutely bonkers watching videos of lifts throughout Pittsburgh. I carefully watched more than two hundred videos of Pittsburgh lifts, Cranberry, Ross & Robinson Townships. Being impressed with over 75% of the lifts, I went back & discovered that more than half of the lifts were SCHINDLER! By Thursday November 23, after my second trip to Easton PA & being impressed with a lift there, I decided to add Pittsburgh straight away! Pittsburgh was placed Atlanta, but above Milwaukee’s placement.

Nothing interesting happened in December 2017 besides the obvious Hartford/New Haven trip.

By the close of 2017, from what started as one major city in North Carolina, packed with a broad variety of different modern lifts with different levels of character (appearance & run), the unnamed list got a new name & it was called the Charlotte Kingdom.

2018

It was now January 1st of 2018. I did not write a single journal post for the first five days of 2018. However, on Sunday, December 31st, after filming some SUPER EPIC National glass lifts in Piscataway Township earlier that day, discussions about the summer of 2018 started grinding into full gear at dinner. I took a mental note of EVERYTHING discussed & saved it. I used my mental notes to plan out my next journal post. There was a possibility of us going to Atlanta & Fort Lauderdale during the summer of 2018 & there was already a certain trip to Atlantic City scheduled for the first weekend of February 2018.

Nothing really exciting happened until the end of January 2018, when we went to the IKEA store across from Newark Airport in Elizabeth (City). I filmed three lifts that night & was impressed with EACH lift I filmed! I also filmed those same lifts in January 2017, but I accidentally deleted the videos before they had the chance to go on Google Photos. I was getting warm feelings about adding this city to the Charlotte Kingdom.

Then came FEBRUARY 2018. It was only the second day, but I was jumping with excitement the entire day at school, because I was going to ATLANTIC CITY that night, to THE BORGATA, at the time, my favorite hotel I visited/stayed at. Obviously, I rode EVERY passenger high rise lift in the hotel. The first lift I rode in Atlantic City during that trip was a Gen2. I stayed whisper-silent during the entire trip down to the lobby, paying attention to any signs of character. The lifts accelerated quickly, had fast deceleration & had FULL intelligent leveling. Even a whirring noise could be heard. I was ALREADY pretty happy with those lifts. After eating a nice Japanese dinner at Izakaya down in the marketplace of the resort, Papa & I went exploring around. During our exploration, we found a SUPER EPIC 2-story OTIS 211 LVM hydraulic (which had a lot of character due to rumbling when going up & feeling like a vacuum when going down). I was DELIGHTED by that lift, so I decided to film another two-story hydro in the north tower before heading onto the high rise lifts. I also filmed that lift during my first visit to Borgata. That lift was SUPER INTERESTING because it dropped like a stone when going down & gradually creeped upward, with a uniquely pitched motor. After those two lifts, my excitement continued building up. I decided to go to the lower high rise lifts which go up to floor 32 & glad I did, because the lift I rode had a LOT of character as it accelerated like a slingshot, numbers skipped on the screen & deceleration was so fast that I was floating! It was a VERY FAST LIFT! I was obviously EVEN MORE IMPRESSED with that lift & found a hidden two-story OTIS Series 2 hydro at the end of a beautiful corridor on floor 32. Out of curiosity, I decided to ride that lift in order to see how it would run. I made a good decision, as I rode that lift to floor 32M & was VERY IMPRESSED with how smoothly it ran! The way it ran made it unique from the other hydros downstairs. I couldn’t NOT capture a few pictures of that lift as it looked like no other lift I had ever been on! Then, I rode the upper high rise lifts to floor 38. THESE LIFTS WERE SUPER FRICKIN’ FAST! IT WAS SO FAST THAT I WENT AIRBORNE DURING DECELERATION! To put it into a few basic words, the lift dropped SEVEN FLOORS before zooming through the blind shaft & the deceleration was so fast that I was pinned to the floor. That lift had FULL intelligent leveling. After riding the lifts in the North Tower of my hotel, I was obviously very happy & couldn’t wait to film the other SOUTH TOWER lifts! After riding the South Tower lifts, I made valuable critical statements on those lifts. While I liked them due to how fast they accelerated & decelerated, I found the North Tower lifts to be far more interesting & have more character than the south tower lifts. The next day, papa & I went to the Tropicana Hotel, which gave me a cold run on my back due to horror stories there I have been reading about those lifts. First, I started by riding the OTIS Gen2 lifts down to the Quarter level (which was more of like a town). Those lifts were very interesting because they ran slightly differently from other OTIS tractions I’ve been on & they had full intelligent leveling. Then, after walking around the “town”, we went back to the Havana Tower & skipped the OTIS hydros. I got out my camera & started filming the Havana Tower high rise lifts & paid attention to characterful elements. To start off, once the lift doors closed, the lifts started accelerating quickly, but not as quickly as the Borgata north tower, which was a bit of a disappointment. Going back down was the same story. That left a bitter taste in my mouth, so then I decided to film the Schindler lift in the Quarter, which was a bit boring & had barely any character to it, except for the very loud directional chimes which nearly pierced my ears. After filming that lift, I went to the NORTH TOWER, which had generic Schindler glass lifts going 120MPM. The doors shut gently & that lift accelerated so quickly, I was pinned to the floor. Better yet, it felt as if I was FLYING through the building with a nice view of the beach below. Going back down the lift, I was airborne for the first few seconds & then watched through the window as the lift kept making rattly sounds back down to the casino floor. I was obviously very happy with that lift. From there, my confidence only kept growing. We then rode the lifts in the South Tower, which had Monitor PC buttons. I rode the lift up and down ONCE, but it sure was a lot of fun, as the lift ran EXACTLY LIKE the KONE MCE lifts I filmed three times in Secaucus before Atlantic City! This lift also kept vibrating the entire way & had semi-plop leveling, which made me very happy. By that time, my liking for the Tropicana hotel > my liking for the Borgata hotel by a 10-fold. I couldn’t leave the hotel without filming a truly amazing 2-story 1990 Montgomery hydro. This was one of the best lifts I filmed in Atlantic City back in February 2018, as the lift had instant starts, leveling & IT EVEN HAD FULL INTELLIGENT LEVELING WITH FULL PREDOORS! The doors opened & closed with a slam & the lift was full of character & charm! Once again, Tropicana > Borgata. I HAD TO GO TO THE WEST TOWER TO SEE WHAT THEIR LIFTS WERE LIKE! Papa & I BOLTED to the West Tower immediately after we left the South Tower shuttle lift. We were greeted by TWO passengers who were staying in the West Tower. Throughout the lift ride they were talking about their stay in the West Tower & how the Havana Tower was better. Enough of me babbling about conversations, let me get back to the quality of the lifts! From the moment I got in the lift, I could hear a generator sound coming from 30 floors up. On the first trip, we stopped at floor 30, but these lifts accelerated EVER SO QUICKLY that I almost fell to the FLOOR! And during the trip, we heard a floor passing chime that was RARE ENOUGH & when the lift stopped, it did so in a matter that made the Borgata BLIND SHAFT lifts not seem so intimidating. The second lift going down was even BETTER than the first one going up, as it had an EXTREME amount of character to it! No lift in Charlotte is as good! To start off, the lift not only accelerated, but it did so quickly that I ended up DROPPING FLOORS before the lift regained control of itself. That was EPIC! When the lift hit full speed, it was shaking back & forth, VERY VIOLENTLY, banging against the guide rails, against the counterweight & the cables were dangling against each other, creating a pretty scary rubbing crescendo! The lift stopped VERY QUICKLY & the doors opened. Boy, I was VERY DIZZY & DISORIENTED after riding that lift! Later that day, my excitement continued brewing. Because I was feeling overly intrigued that day, while we were at Hamilton Mall in Hamilton Township, we were at Forever 21 & I asked my parents if I could look around the shop. It was A PRETTY DARN GOOD THING I DID, OR I WOULD HAVE NEVER KNOWN THAT THERE WAS A EUROPEAN LIFT!!!!!! From the distance, once I got off of the escalator on floor 2, I could see a weird door frame about a few meters ahead. I went ahead to check it out & I COULDN’T BELIEVE WHAT I SAW! It was a European Schindler 3300 MRL lift! Without any hesitation or questions, I knew I HAD TO take a ride in this AWESOME-LOOKING modern lift! To start off with, the chime was amazing (European Schindler 3300) & the doors made a really cool sound when opening. The chime produced when I tapped floor 1 button was SUPER AWESOME & I absolutely loved the motor sound! I took THREE round trip rides on this AWESOME lift before we went to the store next door, H & M, which had a gigantic Schindler 330 hydro! It ran the same as the Tropicana’s Schindler 330 lift, so I didn’t bother riding it again. The next shop I visited was Victoria’s Secret, which had a GLASS DOVER IMPULSE HYDRAULIC LIFT! I knew it was going to be something epic, so I had to film it. Best of all, it was relay controlled & had very bouncy plop leveling on floor 2. I enjoyed this lift a lot & rode it around 6 times during our experience at Hamilton Mall in Hamilton Township. I also rode some very cool Dover & Schindler escalators for fun in the mall corridors while my family was shopping in the shops for clothing. The next shop we went to was back in Atlantic City, which was BASS PRO SHOPS. Upon a bit of exploration, I found a TOTALLY AWESOME ThyssenKrupp glass Endura MRL, which had very unique California TK Signa4 buttons! It looked like an old lift in a doctor’s office, but when I sent it up to floor 2, I heard a whooshing sound in the background & then the lift ran SO SMOOTHLY that I thought it was ROPED hydraulic! The doors opened on floor 2 & I couldn’t even notice the plop because it was so smooth! This lift was ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! And after riding the Borgata lifts several more times & of course, watching more Atlantic City lift videos in my hotel room in between my lift films, I ended up putting Atlantic City right above Secaucus in the Charlotte Kingdom by Thursday, February 22. This was my BEST Atlantic City trip.

From then until March 6 of 2018, I decided to watch even MORE lift videos, this time, from Saint Louis, Kansas City & San Diego. Right off the bat, I started getting impressed with many of the lifts in the videos that I watched, so I figured, why not add these three cities in their appropriate places on the Charlotte Kingdom & added them on Tuesday, March 6, just 12 days after Atlantic City got its definite placement on the Charlotte Kingdom. By that day, I had 16 cities on the Charlotte Kingdom, in this order:

1. Charlotte
2. Saint Louis
3. Kansas City
4. San Diego
5. Los Angeles
6. Houston
7. Fort Lauderdale
8. Miami
9. Atlanta
10. Pittsburgh
11. Milwaukee
12. Chicago
13. Hartford
14. New Haven
15. Atlantic City
16. Secaucus

On the same day, I started introducing STATES to the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System. I had included six states on that day, in this order:

1. North Carolina
2. New Jersey
3. California
4. Florida
5. Texas
6. Connecticut

These six states had a LOT OF AWESOME LIFTS in them, which is precisely why I added the states you see on this organised list.

APRIL 2018 CAME AROUND & on April 8, I announced some NEW ADDITIONS to the Charlotte Kingdom. I watched plenty of videos from each city, carefully before determining whether I should add them or not. The additions were in this order (Bold means the cities were added on this day):

1. Charlotte
2. Indianapolis
3. Saint Louis
4. Kansas City
5. San Diego
6. San Francisco
7. Sacramento
8. LA
9. Houston
10. Dallas
11. San Antonio
12. Fort Lauderdale
13. Miami
14. Atlanta
15. Pittsburgh
16. Milwaukee
17. Chicago
18. Hartford
19. New Haven
20. Stamford
21. Rochester
22. Buffalo
23. White Plains
24. Atlantic City
25. Secaucus

The Charlotte Kingdom was now a size & a half LARGER than it was back on March 6 when I introduced Saint Louis & Kansas City. Of course, the bolded cities weren’t official until June 16.

Starting April 2018, I started PLANNING additions to the Charlotte Kingdom! On April 8, I stated that on June 1st, the 12 new additions below would be official ranking cities on the Charlotte Kingdom. From that day forward, for each & every city I planned on adding, I started binge watching videos of lifts, very carefully.

1. Indianapolis
2. San Francisco
3. Sacramento
4. Dallas
5. Plano
6. Frisco
7. San Antonio
8. Orlando
9. Stamford
10. White Plains
11. Rochester
12. Buffalo

On April 22nd, I added Sarasota to the consideration list, after over time watching many videos & being impressed with the lifts in the videos. I even watched some videos of lifts in the Siesta Key area as well.

There was NO CCRS ACTIVITY AT ANYTIME DURING MAY OR THE FIRST HALF OF JUNE 2018! I resumed my normal CCRS schedule on June 16, right before my Elizabeth lift filming trip for the summer of 2018. In that city, I filmed a 7 story Dover Impulse hydraulic (at the time the highest hydraulic lift I have EVER BEEN ON) & my second set of KONE HORNRTDISC MRL lifts, impressed with BOTH! On Saturday, 6.16.2018, I decided to add it to the Charlotte Kingdom, BELOW SECAUCUS! This was the first time I EVER put a city below Secaucus, or in general, a city below the ranking of a town, but with good reason. Secaucus had a larger variety of lifts.

By 6.1.2018, there were 32 cities on the Charlotte Kingdom & I had planned my summer Elizabeth trip for the purpose of adding it onto the Charlotte Kingdom. By 6.16.2018, I made the trip & filmed a 7 story RARE 1990s Dover Impulse hydraulic lift with a RARE floor passing chime (I liken that one to the Tropicana Hotel West Tower in Atlantic City). I also filmed a VERY EPIC set of 3 8-story KONE HORNRTDISC lifts which I believe were installed in 2013. Obviously, I loved those two lifts, along with the other lifts I have ridden/filmed in Elizabeth BEFORE. When I got home on Saturday 6.16.2018, I immediately added Elizabeth below Secaucus. By that point, there were 33 official cities on the Charlotte Kingdom. This was the last major addition to the Charlotte Kingdom in the first half of 2018.

By 7.1.2018, I have gotten enough feedback & video-based data about Freehold Township, in addition to watching quite a few videos of popular lifts throughout Freehold Township, including Freehold Township High School, Freehold Raceway Mall & Freehold Racetrack. Of course, to say I was impressed with the lifts was a HUGE understatement. Because Freehold was a township & not a town or a city, I of course, had to put it BELOW ELIZABETH! Freehold Township got 34^th place on the Charlotte Kingdom by that evening. By July 2nd, I had other plans to add Bridgewater & Raritan Valley Townships & Clinton Township to the Charlotte Kingdom. But, with almost no video, experience or feedback-based data, there was absolutely no way I could possibly add Clinton Township to the Charlotte Kingdom. I knew I had to make it a priority during the month of July 2018.

Additionally, by 7.10.2018, I had watched over 50 videos of lifts from Rochester, Buffalo & White Plains. White Plains was above Rochester, but Rochester was above Buffalo on the list. Buffalo’s placement was above Atlantic City, at 30, by 5:15 PM on that Tuesday evening. This was the last round of additions to the Charlotte Kingdom before Secaucus & the major overhaul that happened because of Secaucus!

First major overhaul of the Charlotte Kingdom

By mid-July 2018, I had 34 cities, towns & townships with official placements on the Charlotte Kingdom, after over a year of straight experience & video-based research on the different lifts throughout every city. However, I knew I wasn’t doing something right. I put each city in a random order, instead of aligning the placement of each city with the state they were in. It wasn’t until my July 14^th trip to Secaucus (my fifth trip) that I discovered what I was doing wrong. I was having such a good time filming lifts in Secaucus that day (and was EXTREMELY HAPPY with EVERY LIFT I went on that day) that I felt extremely sorry & a bit guilty that I kept Secaucus so low on the Charlotte Kingdom. And I felt sorry that I put Atlantic City & Elizabeth/Freehold Township so low on the list as well. I had to do something drastic & fast, as I was going to Atlantic City in August 2018 (which turned out to be the WORST NJ lift filming trip & second worst lift filming trip BESIDES the February 2017 Fort Lauderdale trip, which LUCKILY happened BEFORE I even knew Charlotte was a thing!). On July 15, at 5:15 PM (Sunday), I figured out a strategic plan to align the placement of each city on the Charlotte Kingdom with its state ranking.

If New Jersey was the second recognized state on the Charlotte Kingdom, why the frick was Atlantic City THIRTY FIRST on it?

After the major overhaul to the Charlotte Kingdom, the Charlotte Kingdom was somewhat renamed the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System & the Charlotte Kingdom name was slowly dropped. Atlantic City moved up to third place behind Asheville, North Carolina, which was added to the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System on the same day as Elizabeth was added. Secaucus was fourth place, Elizabeth was now FIFTH, Freehold was now SIXTH & Morristown was added to the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System below Freehold Township’s placement on July 15, after previously watching a few good lift videos.

After I implemented this system, adding cities to the Charlotte Kingdom (now known as the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System or CCRS) became a BREEZE, because I knew exactly where to put each city when I added them on, according to their state ranking. For example, Atlantic City is the best city in NJ for filming lifts & NJ is second to North Carolina. North Carolina will have 4 cities directly on the CCRS by October 27, so Atlantic City will now rank fifth.

In fact, my system was SO SUCCESSFUL that it motivated me to create an interactive online map of the entire Charlotte Carolina Ranking System for ALL to access & monitor the changes to it. I created the map a week after I completed the New Jersey Rite of Passage in Atlantic City, NJ just a week prior.

Then SEPTEMBER CAME ABOUT! I started to introduce areas to the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System after past video & experience-based research proved that if the lifts in a city are amazing, then the lifts in other surrounding cities may be just as good, or at worst, almost as good! To sum up the changes, after going on many lift filming trips throughout the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System & by the videos I had watched, I had managed to include 11 whole areas onto the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System. And I am still including more areas. Illinois was the first STATE I discovered with a city on the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System, where the state had good lifts throughout its entirety. By September 1st, the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System had 16+ different areas, each at least 10 miles in diameter, including:

1. Charlotte Area
2. Atlantic City Area
3. Elizabeth Area
4. Clinton Township Area
5. Houston Area
6. Dallas Area
7. Los Angeles Area
8. Fort Lauderdale Area
9. Miami Area
10. Tampa/Sarasota Area
11. Hartford Area
12. Pittsburgh Area
13. Scranton Area
14. Philadelphia Area
15. Atlanta Area
16. Boston Area
17. Seattle Area
18. Clinton Township/NYC Band (stretches down to the Atlantic City Area)

By mass, the Philadelphia Area ended up being the LARGEST area on the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System. Beginning October 27, popular routes in NJ from Clinton Township to Freehold Township & Atlantic City will be popular routes on the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System interactive United States map. Because I will be getting my driver’s license sometime during the first half of 2019, I will potentially be able to drive to more of the cities on the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System that I have been wanting to visit for a very long time, for example, Freehold & Manalapan Townships, which are in Monmouth County, the first recognized COUNTY on the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System.

The significance of Charlotte

Charlotte was the first city to be discovered on the Charlotte Carolina Ranking System on May 30^th 2017. After watching many videos, in-depth, of the lifts in Charlotte, I knew that THIS was going to be my FAVORITE American city. The lifts not only have run-character, but they also have class-level appearance that you might not get with most modern lifts in NYC. Because Schindler, OTIS & KONE are my three favorite lift brands, I found Charlotte to have MANY of those kinds of lifts (possibly a larger volume than most other US cities besides the obvious Miami & Pittsburgh). While I was watching videos of lifts in Charlotte, I think I have found some of THE MOST AWESOME HORNRT DISC motors I have ever heard, along with Marriott hotels which have really weird lifts you wouldn’t expect in a typical Marriott hotel in a typical city, for example, a traction MRL ThyssenKrupp in a 5-story Courtyard by Marriott hotel, or a high rise Series 1 in another Courtyard by Marriott Hotel, or how about an OTIS GAL in a Marriott Hotel in 6-story hydro form. The Embassy Suites in Charlotte has ABSOLUTELY AWESOME Dover lifts, which run so perfectly epic that it is hard to compare even Elizabeth’s Embassy Suites to the one in Charlotte! Because Charlotte was the first city & best city I discovered on the CCRS, I cannot place it any lower than the first. Not only that, but the variety of newer OTIS lifts to film was SO GRAND that I liken it to Houston, Miami & LA COMBINED! This is entirely my opinion though & it is open to bias, as other lift filmers have their own favorite list of cities to film lifts & Charlotte ISN’T anywhere on their list. My favorite era of lifts to film is from 1970-present times, so Charlotte has more of the lifts that I like to film, along with nearly 60 other cities, towns & townships that I have discovered throughout the US through experience riding the lifts & different videos.

I am signing off & I will be back next Friday evening at 5:15 PM with details about what is going on Columbus Day weekend. I am thankfully NOT going to Hartford & neither am I going during Christmas Week in December 2018 as of now. I am a bit weary on filming lifts during non-solo trips around the CCRS. My first ever may be in March 2019 in Clinton Township.

BYE Y’ALL

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